Users experiencing graphical glitch with iPhone 5 virtual keyboard

Users have noticed a glitch specific to Apple's iPhone 5 in which a portion of the display flickers when the touchscreen keyboard is invoked.

In a growing thread on the Apple Support Communities website, users have been tracking the issue since the iPhone 5 first went on sale in late September. Users have also posted videos on YouTube demonstrating the issue.

AppleInsider was also able to replicate the flickering glitch, though not with regularity. The issue appears to arise when users invoke the numbers and symbols keyboard by pressing the ".?123" button in the bottom left corner of the device in portrait mode.

Further, the issue is believed to only occur when users are prompted to enter their Apple ID password, such as when downloading content from the App Store. And the glitch does not appear every time users access the numbers and symbols keyboard when entering an Apple ID password.

Because the issue is restricted to such specific circumstances, it's likely that the glitch is a software error, rather than a problem with the 4-inch Retina display on the iPhone 5.

Users posting on Apple's support website say they have not been able to experience the screen glitch on an older device, such as the iPhone 4S, running the latest iOS 6 operating system.

One user, "Daivian825," said they spoke to Apple's technical support, and they suggested conducting a hard reset of the iPhone 5, by holding the power button and home buttons at the same time. However, that method did not resolve the issue

AppleInsider reached out to Apple on Thursday for a comment on the software glitch. This story will be updated if the company provides a statement.

Indeed. I would say that the 'bug' causing the store not to connect is more of an issue. The 'bug' causing the music app to not refresh the play button to a pause one appropriately, to take as much as 10 seconds to play a song picked off your track list or to jump as many as 5 songs when you hit track forward to be an issue. And certainly whatever is going on with cell data not switching to wifi on ATT phones so you use up hundreds of dollars in data if you aren't one of the lucky few on an unlimited plan to be an issue.

Apple should hire this team that spends all day looking for any minor thing on Apple products and put them in their quality control department. Perhaps Samsung and Google don't pay them all that much and they could be had for cheap?

Indeed. I would say that the 'bug' causing the store not to connect is more of an issue. The 'bug' causing the music app to not refresh the play button to a pause one appropriately, to take as much as 10 seconds to play a song picked off your track list or to jump as many as 5 songs when you hit track forward to be an issue. And certainly whatever is going on with cell data not switching to wifi on ATT phones so you use up hundreds of dollars in data if you aren't one of the lucky few on an unlimited plan to be an issue.